Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town Cover:Hardcover Oregon—population 846 souls

Oregon—population 846 souls

Boaz introduces new issues that have never been considered as a question of religious freedom before—such as the right of Palo Mayombe devotees to possess remains of the dead—and she brings together controversies that have not been previously regarded as analogous

More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the arrival of a Black man in the Oval Office

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Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town Cover:Hardcover Oregon—population 846 soulsA moving chronicle of who belongs in America. Like so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and, along the way, turned into one of the most Muslim towns in the US. Now about 6,000 of Lewiston's 36,000 inhabitants are refugees and asylum seekers,